Top 100 Quotes About Better Things
#1. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oskar Homolka
#2. Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself.
Ann Patchett
#3. I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.
Audrey Hepburn
#4. Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.
Tamora Pierce
#5. I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague ... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
Barry Hannah
#6. It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer
#7. I see and approve better things, but follow worse.
Ovid
#8. Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
Dave Matthews
#9. If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.
Joyce Meyer
#11. You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
Jamie Tworkowski
#12. Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#13. The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)
Joe Abercrombie
#14. Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.
Charlie LeDuff
#16. Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra.
-Paige to Cassandra
Kelley Armstrong
#17. But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#18. Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.
Andreas Feininger
#19. I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.
Ani DiFranco
#20. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.
Aimee Bender
#21. Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
Jeffrey Eugenides
#22. I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.
Ashley Scott
#23. There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
John Podhoretz
#24. Now if you excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing.
J.K. Rowling
#25. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.
James MacDonald
#27. They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
Mac Miller
#28. My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.
Iyanla Vanzant
#29. I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
Linford Christie
#30. My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Been Contented goes beyond our material wants; contentment sets us free from the illusion of having more or "Better things", or expecting "better times" it sets us free from the illusion that somehow things should be different.
Martin Suarez
#33. Tormund Thunderfist had better things to do than learn to make papers talk at him.
George R R Martin
#34. My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.
Ice Cube
#35. The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.
John Harvey-Jones
#36. Concern with labor's length began in hospital, where a prompt turnover of beds was of practical and financial concern. Next came practitioner impatience: doctors with overbusy schedules or better things to do than wait around for women to give birth wanted to define how long was too long.
Elizabeth Davis
#37. The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and better off under Japanese rule than independent.
Homer B. Hulbert
#38. Good things come to those who wait,
better things to those who toil,
and great things to those who endure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
Louisa May Alcott
#41. Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things.
Drake
#42. This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.
Cynthia Heimel
#43. Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.
Orison Swett Marden
#44. You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.
David Allen
#45. All the things we could be doing now if she weren't busy wondering if the world holds better things for her than me.
Nina LaCour
#46. You're important with your green eyes looking at me like I mean something. It's okay that you have better things to do. It's enough that I get you sometimes. Once in a while. I know I'm lucky for that, to get you just a little
Patrick Rothfuss
#47. One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.
Robin McKinley
#48. When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein
#49. There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.
Lee L Jampolsky
#50. Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.
PZ Myers
#51. I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
Jude Law
#52. Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.
Amy Chan
#53. If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
William Morris
#54. If one person "wastes" away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
Francis Chan
#55. Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience ... . When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. BRIAN ADAMS
Jack Canfield
#56. Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
Tanith Lee
#57. From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.
Ben Mendelsohn
#58. The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
Grenville Kleiser
#59. Good things come to those who love; better things come to those who act with love.
Debasish Mridha
#60. You always have to go for bigger and better things.
Beth Mowins
#61. Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
John Clapham
#62. Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
Brian Tracy
#63. The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
Bill Murray
#64. No matter what happens, don't be sorry you were born. Even though nobody praises us, don't forget to smile in any situation. As long as you're alive there will be better things later ... And there will be many.
- Bellmere.
Eiichiro Oda
#65. The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.
John Elof Boodin
#66. I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
Jack McDevitt
#67. "Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."
Charles Dickens
#68. If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.
Bob Myers
#69. Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#70. I'm pretty sure my baby girl has better things to do with you than keep you on your toes.
Rochelle Paige
#71. We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
J.G. Holland
#72. My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
James Purefoy
#73. Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
Fulton J. Sheen
#74. Good things come to those who wait, but better things come to those who work for it!!
Sam Houssami
#75. I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
Jhonen Vasquez
#76. Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
Nancy Gibbs
#77. I helped launch 'ET' ... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.
Robin Leach
#78. I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.
Rodney Brooks
#79. To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#80. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Oscar Wilde
#81. if He closes a door, you may never know what He's saving you from or see the better things He has stored up for you.
Jamie Larbi
#82. Oi, lovebirds!" Puck's voice shattered the quiet, bouncing through the darkness.
Ash pulled back with a rueful look. "Get a room, would ya? We've got better things to
do than watch you suck face!
Julie Kagawa
#83. I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
Buddy Rich
#84. It seems no body's business to try to better things
Tom Hodgkinson
#85. Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.
Ryan Graudin
#86. I believe, sometimes in spite of myself, in grace and better things to come and a time when we will all be whole.
Ally Condie
#87. Sometimes you just have to trust that the path you are walking is leading you to better things
Steven Aitchison
#88. Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin)
I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat)
Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
Willa Cather
#90. A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
Horace
#91. most people have better things to do than bother Sylvester, who has a history of permanent solutions to temporary annoyances.
Seanan McGuire
#92. Apollo. I'm the fucking Lord of the Underworld. Do you honestly think I need to get my jollies by lying to others? I can think of so many better things to do.
Rosanna Leo
#93. I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.
Jonathan Tropper
#94. Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened
Roger Zelazny
#95. I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.
Jeffrey Donovan
#96. In her eyes, the sadness sings - of one who was destined, for better things.
Lang Leav
#97. My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.
Ricky Hatton
#98. Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft
#99. There are better things than sex, but nothing quite like it.
W.C. Fields
#100. Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.
Michael Symon
